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Yemen’s Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and human rights activist Tawakkol Karman has expressed happiness that Red Cross worker, Nourane Houas, was finally freed, accusing the militias of Houthis and Ali Abdullah Saleh of complicity in kidnapping.
In a post published on social media, Karman said she is happy that Nourane Houas has become free after she had been kidnapped for nearly a year with clear complicity of the ousted president Saleh and the Iran-backed Houthi militia.
Houas has been reported to reach Oman after being freed with Omani help.
According to ONA, the concerned authorities in the sultanate, and in coordination with some Yemeni parties, managed to find the aforementioned woman in Yemen and transferred her to the sultanate this evening, in preparation to repatriate her home.
Anonymous gunmen had kidnapped Nourane, the French national with International Committee for Red Cross, as she was leaving home for work in the Houthi rebel-held capital Sanaa on December 2015.
She was in charge of an ICRC humanitarian protection program in the Swiss-based humanitarian agency's Sanaa office.